Take the Journey

Since the first steps of man, Native peoples have shared a spiritual connection with mother earth; a belief that sustains us, shapes our cultures, and gives us faith.

My Name is Simon Baker and I am travelling the world to discover the unique relationship first people’s have with the environment by visiting fascinating native communities and cultures fighting to preserve their environment and way of life.

Join me in a journey to find hope in our traditional ways, and experience the wisdom, power, and passion of our Native Planet.

Canada

From his home in the Squamish Nation, host Simon Baker traces the path of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, from the Oil Sands in Alberta to the tanker terminal planned for Kitimat, BC, to understand why First Nations are opposed.

USA

Simon travels across Arizona, Utah and New Mexico to see why the United States Environmental Protection Agency has labeled abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation “one of the largest environmental justice problems in America today”.

Australia

Simon travels to the Kimberly in Northwest Australia to see why the Goolarabooloo people are defending their ‘song lines’ from their government and corporations attempting to industrialize their traditional territory.

Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Simon travels to the remote South Pacific island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to see how the growth of tourism and immigration is affecting its indigenous people, their environment and the sanctity of its ancient Polynesian treasures.

Chile

Simon travels to the Atacama Desert in northern Chile where high atop the Andes Mountains the Colla community of Rio Jorquera is fighting to defend their ‘wakas’, sacred glaciers that give life to water in one of the driest places on earth.

USA

Mexico

Simon travels to Durango, Mexico to meet indigenous tribes living in the highlands of the Sierra Madre, a region known as El Mezquital, where the O’Dam, Mexicanero and Wirrarixa people still practice their traditional justice and live exactly as the Spaniards found them some 500 years ago. Despite the influence of the Catholic church and the relative indifference of the Mexican government these communities have thrived practicing their own religions, speak

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Recent Dispatches

Host Simon Baker travels deep inside Mexico’s Durango State, to meet indigenous communities still practicing their traditional justice systems, largely independent from the Government of Mexico. Long before the Spanish came to colonize the country centuries ago, the Mezquital, a remote part of the Sierra Madres Mountains, was home to the indigenous O’Dam, Mexicaneros and Wirrarika people. However, recent events have impoverished…

Host Simon Baker travels to the gulf coast of Louisiana where he encounters three Native American tribes struggling to maintain themselves against more frequent hurricanes, rising seas levels and the fallout of oil production. As Simon learns how eroding shorelines are shrinking their land base, he discovers why one Choctaw community recently earned the dubious…